wow, that does sound overly complicated and esoteric -
or even metaphysical -
for such a bad and boldly propagandistic series.
Maybe you should try reading the Phillip K. Dick novel first. It's a science fiction classic that I first read 35 +/- years ago, and re-read a couple of years ago when I heard they were making the TV series.
Granted, the show is only
very loosely based on the novel (the premise, some basics about a few of the characters, plus a few other thematic details), but maybe you will get an idea of what the story is about, rather than calling it "propaganda".
I'm not saying someone NEEDS to read Dick's novel first to understand and enjoy the TV series (because I personally don't think it's a requirement -- plus the novel has a very different plot than the TV series, even if they share a common general premise), but since you seem to be confused about some of the basics of what series is attempting to depict, the novel might be of value to you.
As for Tagomi suddenly being in "our world" rather than his own, he is able to travel between the different realities through meditation. That's quite different than the novel. There was a time when Tagomi experienced our universe, but not to the extent as in the TV series. Also, other characters in the book have different motivations than their TV series counterparts, and do things differently in the book than in the TV series.
Another major difference in the book is that there are no films made by the Man in the High Castle that depict alternate universes. Instead, an alternate universe is described in a novel (a novel within the novel) titled "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy", written by Hawthorne Abendsen (The Man in the High Castle), a popular book which many of the characters in the Pacific States are reading, but has been banned by the German Reich. Abendsen, like Tagomi, saw glimpses of this alternate universe through meditations with the
I Ching and wrote about what he saw in that fictional novel.
That novel-within-the-novel is what depicts the different universe, because "The Grasshopper Lies Heavy" is a novel about an alternative history (alternative to them) in which the Allies won WWII instead of the Germans and Japanese. However, the alternate universe depicted in "The Grasshopper Lies heavy" is not really "our" reality either, aside from Japan and Germany losing the war. There are still differences between it and our reality.
But "propaganda"? I think you need to explain that a bit more for me to understand what you mean by that.
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